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The big question is: Why not?!

This is a little silly.

With groups set up, you could effectively replace old school “forums” with the more dynamic “groups”.

You can just message from your profile, or to a group. It turns the entire site into an extendable forum. All that’s missing is a better text editor.
This would simplify things a great deal. Right now, you can start a conversation in the forum; in a group; or just with a message from the profile. These are not all that integrated. Way too easy to get lost, or lose related content. It’s a mess.

I know with the new updates, bbpress and BuddyPress are friends, and you can (in theory) feed your group forums into the site wide forum. But… why have a site wide forum when you can just message to groups?

I’ve had to create a page on the site just to explain to people what this Groups vs Forums stuff is about. Think about it from their perspective. What the hell is a “group”. This really smacks of developer centric thinking dominating user centric thinking.

I’ve found this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-tinymce/
But I’m getting a fatal error, and so are other people (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bp-tinymce-fatal-error?replies=3#post-4107216)

@keenanlukey Yes. You should deactivate the BP Template Pack plugin if you’re using BuddyPress 1.7. Since you’ve reached Step 3 of Appearance > BP Compatibility process, it means that you should also delete the 6 BP folders (activity, blogs, forums, groups, members, registration) transferred to your catch-box theme folder in server  during the compatibility process. Then go check out your BuddyPress pages in site frontend. Per initial scan of your theme’s page.php and stylesheet, looks like only minor, if any, CSS changes only.

@bill-king I asked you to change themes to double-check if the warning was only happening in your theme as I presumed it would.  I just checked out the Radiance theme demo at Rocketthemes and unfortunately, they’re still using jQuery version 1.7.1 while WordPress and therefore BuddyPress as well, are using jQuery version 1.9.1.  Which brings me to question are they dequeueing WP’s jQuery to get in their version in? That’ll be bad, as it’s going to break some WP plugins which use 1.9.1. Hopefully, the Rockettheme devs there will update their WP themes to use 1.9.1 otherwise, it’s going to be a rocky road for you with WordPress plugins using WP’s 1.9.1 version.

If the jQuery issue gets fixed,  there is another method to BP Theme Compatibility, i.e., copy Radiance theme’s page.php file and save as buddypress.php. Tell the theme dev that you need to revise code within buddypress.php to make it work with BuddyPress amidst all the customized coding, i.e., need the_title and the_content  to  be within the WordPress loop.

….just realized that you can’t see the issue in the link above.
Here are some screen shots of what I was talking about.

@modemlooper
Default Right out the Box – no codes changed… Admin Panel no pics show, but this is what shows in the activity field without hitting the “share button”
http://vanitywigs.com/buddy1.jpg

This is how it looks when I changed the directory folder to buddypress-share-it to match the coding.
http://vanitywigs.com/buddy2.jpg

Hope this explains my issue for some resolution. Thanks so much and I apologize if this is not the the right forum to place this issue.

@modemlooper Thanks so much for the link.
I’m having a slight issue with what I downloaded. Might be that I do not have something configured right. I did a default install without changing any coding. I get this result.
http://vanitywigs.com/wordpress/activity/

I also tested this by changing the folder name to match what is in the code and though the pictures on the Admin Plugin shows now, when I go to the activity page only the Share button Shows but when clicked nothing happens.

Any suggestions on what to do?

@bill-king What theme are you using? Custom-coded probably with own proprietary way of rendering WP pages so we cannot filter the page title for BuddyPress pages. Change to Twenty Twelve or BP Default theme and those warnings will go away.

Those two fixes get me 90% of the way there, but on 3.5 and 1.7 when you are in the admin panel of Moderation, the link to “View” an Activity Update goes to domain.com/activity/[#] when it should go to domain.com/member/[membername]/activity/[#]

Any thoughts?

http://modemlooper.me/allow-youtube-embed-in-buddypress-profile-fields/

@jancbeck Maybe with a few coding that would be possible…

In the first instance attempt to allow BP to use it’s theme compatibility now built into 1.7 by simply activating BP and your theme do not try and use template pack for the moment.

I believe I understood that the BuddyBar was being deprecated.

@jcollier BuddyBar had already been deprecated since BuddyPress 1.6. For reference see related tickets, specifically #3661 and #3596 You can also check out bp-members-adminbar.php with bp-members-buddybar.php in current BP 1.7 version //edit – Visitors who are not logged in shouldn’t be able to see member’s my account options.

Buddybar shown to all users, including a log-in/register link for new users

If you want BuddyBar back, you can create a bp-custom.php file, add following code, and upload to wp-content/plugins/ folder in server

`<?php
// Bring BuddyBar back
add_filter( ‘bp_use_wp_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’ );
?>`

If you are running under theme compat then you shouldn’t need to call in the js file from legacy, if you are simply modifying template files and styling then files need to live in either /buddypress/ or /community/ with css in theme root; how have you got things configured?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/developers/

been running cometchat pro at http://smeak.com … and loving it, tried MANY chat systems… where else can u chat with googleplus or FB users from within BP, or mobile chat to android… share whiteboards and video chat etc…. worth the money in every way

Awesome @maddogmcewan! Thank you for sharing! =)

I swear by BuddyStream … it works like a horse at http://smeak.com – LOVE IT

you should also look at an old plugin called BP Resume it nay be of some use to you…. I tweaked it a bit at smeak.com and it works quite well

Theme compat changes the way Ajax is handled, you’ll need to call the older bp-default ajax.php file. or are you actually allowing theme compat to run?

@modemlooper THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!
How do I donate? <–Serious Inquiry… do you have paypal?